Written Question·Home Office·UIN 44245

Police: Workplace Pensions

Tabled: 4 April 2025
Answered: 11 April 2025

Question

Ben Lake

Plaid CymruCeredigion Preseli

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will amend the Police pension scheme 1987 to allow surviving (a) partners, (b) widows and (c) widowers to retain their full entitlement upon (i) remarriage and (ii) cohabitation.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The 1987 Police Pension Scheme provides a pension for the widow, widower or civil partner of a police officer who dies. In common with most other public service pension schemes of that time, these benefits cease to be payable where the widow, widower or c...

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